Following Jeanne Rabin's death, Jean Audubon renewed his relationship with Sanitte and had another daughter by her, named Rose.

The senior Audubon had risen from his early days as a cabin boy, and commanded ships.

During the American Revolution, the father Jean Audubon had been imprisoned by the British Empire.

The children were raised in Couëron, near Nantes, France, by Audubon and his wife Anne Moynet Audubon, whom he had married years before.

From his earliest days, Audubon had an affinity for birds.

They had two sons: Victor Gifford ( 1809 – 1860 ) and John Woodhouse Audubon ( 1812 – 1862 ); and two daughters who died while young: Lucy at two years ( 1815 – 1817 ) and Rose at nine months ( 1819 – 1820 ).

Though he could not afford to buy Wilson's work, Audubon used it to guide him when he had access to a copy.

Audubon found that during his absence, he had lost some subscribers due to the uneven quality of coloring of the plates.

Audubon made some excursions out West where he hoped to record Western species he had missed, but his health began to fail.

The Spoonbills are protected by the National Audubon Society, two of whose representatives had died when their plane crashed on Dr. No's airstrip.

The company was formed by Oaklyn residents who had been volunteering their services at the nearby Defender Fire Company ( Station 1-2 ), which was located in the community of Orston ( then another section of Haddon Township, now part of Audubon borough ).

Brower was appointed the first executive director in 1952, and the Club began to catch up with major conservation organizations such as the National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, The Wilderness Society, and Izaak Walton League, which had long had professional staff.

As a boy, Grinnell had avidly read Ornithological Biography, a seminal work by the great bird painter John James Audubon ; he also attended a school for boys conducted by Lucy Audubon.

Despite a currently robust population, a recent study by the National Audubon Society of data from the Christmas Bird Count indicated that populations had declined by 61 % to a population of 73 million from historic highs of over 190 million birds.

The Heye Collection was formerly displayed in the Audubon Terrace location, but had long been seeking a new building.

They had one son, Audubon Whelock Ridgway, who died of pneumonia in 1901 while working at the Field Museum in Chicago.

In 2007, Ragged Mountain Resort announced that it had begun the process to become designated a Certified Audubon Signature Sanctuary.

Palaeontologist Alan Feduccia, who had not yet examined the specimen, wrote in Audubon Magazine that the structures of Sinosauropteryx ( which he considered at the time to be a synonym of Compsognathus, as Compsognathus prima ) were stiffening structures from a frill running along the back, and that dinosaur palaeontologists were engaging in wishful thinking when equating the structures with feathers.

During the late 1980s and early 2000s the NFC had distributed over 1 million copies nationally of Forest Voice newspaper ; obtained 2 million signatures in support of the Native Forest Protection Act ( legislation designed to protect all of the remaining National Forests ) and acquired the major endorsements of Greenpeace, the National Audubon Society, chapters of the Sierra Club, and the Association of Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics.

Klum has had several wildlife documentaries shown on Swedish national TV and has also had his work featured in Wildlife Conservation, Audubon, Geo, National Geographic, Terre Sauvage, Stern, Der Spiegel and the New York Times among others.

Audubon resumed his bird studies and created his own nature museum, perhaps inspired by the great museum of natural history created by Charles Willson Peale in Philadelphia.

Upon his horse in western Kentucky on December 16, 1811, Audubon experienced the great New Madrid earthquake.

Although he was not an author himself his specimens were of great help to others, such as John James Audubon, Charles Lucien Bonaparte and Thomas Nuttall.

By comparison, Stone Harbor bird sanctuary's allies seem less formidable, for aside from the Audubon Society, they are mostly the snowy, common and cattle egrets and the Louisiana, green, little blue and black-crowned herons who nest and feed there.

The largest and most influential environmental organizations in the United States, according to Andrew Rowell are the so called Group of Ten: Defenders of Wildlife, Environmental Defense Fund, National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Friends of the Earth, Izaak Walton League, Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society and the World Wide Fund for Nature

When Audubon, at age 18, boarded ship for emigration to the United States in 1803, he changed his name to an anglicized form: John James Audubon.

I John Audubon, having this day mutual consent with Ferdinand Rozier, dissolved and forever closed the partnership and firm of Audubon and Rozier, and having Received from said Ferdinand Rozier payment and notes to the full amount of my part of the goods and debts of the late firm of Audubon and Rozier, I the said John Audubon one of the firm aforesaid do hereby release and forever quit claim to all and any interest which I have or may have in the stock on hand and debts due to the late firm of Audubon and Rozier assign, transfer and set over to said Ferdinand Rozier, all my rights, titles, claims and interest in the goods, merchandise and debts due to the late firm of Audubon and Rozier, and do hereby authorize and empower him for my part, to collect the same in any manner what ever either privately or by suit or suits in law or equity hereby declaring him sole and absolute proprietor and rightful owner of all goods, merchandise and debts of this firm aforesaid, as completely as they were the goods and property of the late firm Audubon and Rozier.

When Audubon arrived home, he was relieved to find no major damage, but the area was shaken by aftershocks for months.

After 1819, Audubon went bankrupt and was thrown into jail for debt.

Audubon realized the ambitious project would take him away from his family for months at a time.

Audubon sometimes used his drawing talent to trade for goods or sell small works to raise cash.

Though he did not use oils much for his bird work, Audubon earned good money painting oil portraits for patrons along the Mississippi.

Audubon returned to Philadelphia in 1824 to seek a publisher for his bird drawings.

Though he met Thomas Sully, one of the most famous portrait painters of the time and a valuable ally, Audubon was rebuffed for publication.

The cost of printing the entire work was $ 115, 640 ( over $ 2, 000, 000 today ), paid for from advance subscriptions, exhibitions, oil painting commissions, and animal skins, which Audubon hunted and sold.

All but 80 of the original copper plates were melted down when Lucy Audubon, desperate for money, sold them for scrap to the Phelps Dodge Corporation.

The center is named for George Gustav Heye, who began collecting Native American artifacts in 1903 and opened the Museum of the American Indian on Audubon Terrace in upper Manhattan in 1922.

The Native Forest Council has worked cooperatively with many environmental organizations on this issue including: the National Audubon Society, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, National Wildlife Federation, Wilderness Society, Earth Island Institute, and LightHawk.

* Bust of John James Audubon, Hall of Fame for Great Americans, Bronx, New York, 1927.

Audubon writes that while on horseback he believed the distant rumbling to be that of a tornado, “ but the animal knew better than I what was forthcoming, and instead of going faster, so nearly stopped that I remarked he placed one foot after another on the ground with as much precaution as if walking on a smooth piece of ice.

However, it would not be unheard of for the Audubon, or any of the other parkways proposed as Interstates above, to be " grandfathered " into the Interstate system by the issuance of a waiver ; it has been done before, with such roads as the Kansas Turnpike, Pennsylvania Turnpike and others which do not ( or did not at the time ) meet the minimum Interstate standards.